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— Joel Fields (@joel_fields) May 30, 2017
Also: Why did Philip have to kill the nice Nazi lady’s husband? Couldn’t they have just visited her earlier in the day?
FIELDS: One of the ironies is if Elizabeth had her way, they would have put a bullet in her head and gotten out of there, and he wouldn’t have died. But because Philip had to know, things dragged out.
There has been some. You had a major story line about illegal groceries. Do you feel like you perhaps hit the brakes too hard this year?
FIELDS: There’s certainly been some criticism. At some level, you just have to take your lumps. I don’t think we were expecting quite this much of a backlash, so it’s been a little upsetting. Here’s what we’re telling ourselves: Let’s wait until it’s all over. Let’s wait for everybody to have seen it in context. And we’re hoping with that perspective, the response to that will be a little more muted. But we don’t know, maybe not.
Finally, this question is stupid, but I’ve always wanted to ask: Wouldn’t their wigs come off during sex? Was hair-pulling not discovered until 1990?
FIELDS: We actually tried to answer that question in season 3 or 4, when he takes his wife off with Martha, and we made that point about how hard it was to pull off.
FIELDS: One of the ironies is if Elizabeth had her way, they would have put a bullet in her head and gotten out of there, and he wouldn’t have died. But because Philip had to know, things dragged out.
There has been some. You had a major story line about illegal groceries. Do you feel like you perhaps hit the brakes too hard this year?
FIELDS: There’s certainly been some criticism. At some level, you just have to take your lumps. I don’t think we were expecting quite this much of a backlash, so it’s been a little upsetting. Here’s what we’re telling ourselves: Let’s wait until it’s all over. Let’s wait for everybody to have seen it in context. And we’re hoping with that perspective, the response to that will be a little more muted. But we don’t know, maybe not.
Finally, this question is stupid, but I’ve always wanted to ask: Wouldn’t their wigs come off during sex? Was hair-pulling not discovered until 1990?
FIELDS: We actually tried to answer that question in season 3 or 4, when he takes his wife off with Martha, and we made that point about how hard it was to pull off.
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We've seen Philip be really conflicted about his work in the past but this is the first time they've actually talked about leaving the job behind. I'm assuming we'll see this continue to play out in their marriage next season?
FIELDS Only on this show could it be a spoiler to say what would be the source of their marital challenges — but it feels like this would get us into the spoiler territory. What we can say is, as always, what we've most wanted to explore on this show are the human relationships and the marriage and family story. For sure, that's going to be a big part of the final season.
At what point did you know that they weren't going back to Russia?
FIELDS I think that was really very early in the season break. That was a fundamental part of how the season start.
You're now working on the show's final season, yes? How far are you into the process?
FIELDS We have 10 outlines written scene-by-scene in detail, and we are in the process of doing what we call our season review now, where we take all of our stories and define every storyline and rewrite and rewrite. Soon, we'll start turning in the scripts.
FIELDS Only on this show could it be a spoiler to say what would be the source of their marital challenges — but it feels like this would get us into the spoiler territory. What we can say is, as always, what we've most wanted to explore on this show are the human relationships and the marriage and family story. For sure, that's going to be a big part of the final season.
At what point did you know that they weren't going back to Russia?
FIELDS I think that was really very early in the season break. That was a fundamental part of how the season start.
You're now working on the show's final season, yes? How far are you into the process?
FIELDS We have 10 outlines written scene-by-scene in detail, and we are in the process of doing what we call our season review now, where we take all of our stories and define every storyline and rewrite and rewrite. Soon, we'll start turning in the scripts.
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DEADLINE: Are we going to see any new characters introduced in that final chapter?
WEISBERG: Yes, we are.
DEADLINE: I think anyone would be hard-pressed to say this season hasn’t been exciting, especially in terms of family dynamics.
WEISBERG: Well, yes, but it also feels like we’ve been on such a journey with these characters that we feel like we know them intensely well at this point too. We almost know what they’ll do in any situation and we no longer even tend to feel when we’re breaking stories like we have to do it in a traditional sense. We don’t feel like we have to come up with a story. We feel like we can just think about what would really happen to these characters. So that’s quite a journey and quite a change from the beginning.
WEISBERG: Yes, we are.
DEADLINE: I think anyone would be hard-pressed to say this season hasn’t been exciting, especially in terms of family dynamics.
WEISBERG: Well, yes, but it also feels like we’ve been on such a journey with these characters that we feel like we know them intensely well at this point too. We almost know what they’ll do in any situation and we no longer even tend to feel when we’re breaking stories like we have to do it in a traditional sense. We don’t feel like we have to come up with a story. We feel like we can just think about what would really happen to these characters. So that’s quite a journey and quite a change from the beginning.
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